Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

New arrivals. Under the patronage of the royal family. Mr. Simnett [i.e. Simmett] begs leave to inform the ladies and gentlemen, and the inhabitants at large, of this town, that he has arrived with the greatest wonders of the present age in a large commodious caravan. The Canadian giantesses Miss Priscilla and Miss Amelia Weston, twin sisters, in their twentieth year of their age, and each standing nearly seven feet high ... These wonderful prodigies are contrasted by the Norfolk dwarf Mrs. Walpole, thirty-one years of age, and stands only thirty-five inches high ...

Accession number
PML 146639, p. 491 (facing)
Creator
Simmett, Mr.
Published
Romford [London] : S. Robinson, Printer, Essex Press, [1833?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Broadside loosely laid in before p. 491 in v. 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of Henry Morley's Memoirs of Batholomew Fair (London : Chapman and Hall, 1859), see PML 146639.
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 39 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
In pencil at upper right: Bartholomew Fair 1833.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
Department